How do you deal with "winners tilt"?

This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by DaPhunk: 05.04.2012 05:58.

Maybe there is a thread like this already, but I just had to make me a new one!

Winners Tilt!!!

So I have found that this often happens to me when I am moving up in stakes or have set myself a target number of hands or $ to win.

I steadily grind up a certain amount of money at a good win-rate and somewhere along the way I lose my mindset. I get too focused with wanting to win those last couple of $ so I can move up. Add to this that I've been doing well at my limit for tens of thousands of hands my mindset somehow changes.....

I start to feel a little invincible, like I'm crushing the limit, and add to this the excitement of shotting a higher limit something goes wrong.

Hence the normal "disaster" style graph. For example this one actually happened to me recently;

So, what are your tricks and tips for getting your mindset back in the zone and get you out of your funk? The more responses the better!

This is great if you're grinding right, but if you're about to move up (which is where this sort of thin normally happens to me) you can get affected even by glancing at your roll at the end of each session.

Thinking about this suggestion, you think it maybe takes waaaay too much self-control to not look at your roll that most poker players just don't have amiright?

Don't play for the money or a goal. Play because you like poker, the game, like to exploit regs and fishes. It makes the game more fun, because you will always play your best, and increases your winrate by a wide margin.

Have a goal like, Try to play your best poker game! And don't mind the results, this is hard I know. But it would be a very good goal! I am playing my best game I can't do more than that! Don't play to many tables, don't over judge yourself. Don't play poker just to grind! Do it cause you love the game etc.